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Creative Challenge: April Update

2019-04-082019-04-08

Well, it’s a challenge. The ‘creative’ part is sometimes debatable.

Creative Challenge: April Update
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    It’s time to check-in with our Creative Challenge progress!

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    Revision is my arch-nemesis, and also essential to achieving professional quality–apparently. Fine, fine. It’s true. None of my first drafts are publishable. Some come close to being good, and possess raw energy that the following drafts lack, but that worked in my favor much more when writing fan fiction than it does for original. And,

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    How to use Scrivener for worldbuilding–and a lot of other things, incidentally–is the first in a line of what I’ll call “The Basics.”  Generally, what I’m interested in writing about is a bit farther down the line of writing craft, but if somebody new to writing visits my blog, I want to have articles to

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    Meeting my own writing goals has always been difficult.  Deadlines are easy when somebody else is driving me–my job, my grades, my reputation–but difficult to respect when those forces are absent, in my experience.  Fear of consequences is an effective motivator. That’s where public accountability enters the equation.  By stating my goals out loud, I

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    Have you missed any writing days yet?  The frenetic pace of Nanowrimo almost begs us to trip up.  I always do, eventually. I’ve missed two days, so far: one thanks to bad planning, and the other because of an emergency vet visit.  Our boy is fine, but wow, did that kill my motivation to write. 

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    Nanowrimo for the Anxious: Shut That Inner Critic Down

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    Like everything related to writing, shutting your inner critic down sounds easier than it is.  However, if you can’t shut that asshole down, you can at least sharpen your tools for cussing it out effectively.  Or, y’know, just ignoring the damn thing. My critic repeats everybody who told me I’m worthless.  It parrots the attitude

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    There must be a sizeable chunk of text devoted to writing around family interference in No Plot? No Problem!–and if not, you’ll find it in other books.  Also on other blogs, like posts about maintaining creative routines during the holidays over at The Writing Life.  I really like her suggestions, because they emphasize flexibility and address

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